Placido Domingo is a famous Musician from Spain, he/she is 83 years old and still alive, born January 21, 1941.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 32 quotes who is written / told by Placido.
"The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles"
"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance"
"I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me"
"I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction"
"I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities"
"When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then"
"This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career"
"The high note is not the only thing"
"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it"
"If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently"
"The public is a part of my real life"
"The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen"
"In the last century, everybody was singing lower"
"Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was"
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step"
"Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public"
"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows"
"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands"
"Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career"
"I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18"
"I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys"
"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"
"This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors"
"On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there"
"My strength is my enthusiasm"
"It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years"
"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations"
"I feel at home in an orchestral score"
"I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City"
"Singing becomes a form of therapy"
"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life"
"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity"
